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SOLVED: Djetset 827 - Mastra HP 15 Coupe by Trojan
« on: June 22, 2017, 01:10:55 PM »
As I've had five of my puzzles solved in just one day (a new record, and none of them solved by a Pro!) I better begin to add some new Puzzles  ???

Surprisingly this model doesn't seem to have been posted here before, so for a point, full make and model name for this car please.
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Re: Djetset 827
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2017, 06:45:40 AM »
Up a level...
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Re: Djetset 827
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2017, 07:56:31 AM »
Well if it's a (Hudson) Essex Terraplane, as I think it may be, perhaps it's a 1932 six-cylinder with an English body
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Re: Djetset 827
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2017, 11:53:05 AM »
Well if it's a (Hudson) Essex Terraplane, as I think it may be, perhaps it's a 1932 six-cylinder with an English body
Sorry, but none of the above so far.
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Re: Djetset 827
« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2017, 12:26:37 PM »

 made in USA

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Re: Djetset 827
« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2017, 12:32:41 PM »
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Re: Djetset 827
« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2017, 03:27:58 PM »

 English

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Re: Djetset 827
« Reply #7 on: July 04, 2017, 03:40:40 PM »
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Re: Djetset 827
« Reply #8 on: July 05, 2017, 04:48:09 AM »
It's the six-cylinder Trojan Mastra convertible from 1935. One of these was actually built and was made to run, whereas the saloon was just a rolling mock-up I believe

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Re: Djetset 827
« Reply #9 on: July 05, 2017, 10:47:02 AM »
It's the six-cylinder Trojan Mastra convertible from 1935. One of these was actually built and was made to run, whereas the saloon was just a rolling mock-up I believe
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Re: SOLVED: Djetset 827 - Mastra HP 15 Coupe by Trojan
« Reply #10 on: July 05, 2017, 11:48:02 AM »
I should have got that, as ten years ago it was I who spotted the saloon Mastra that Grobmotorix posted https://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/2007-35/trojan-mastra/msg16627/#msg16627

As for the cars themselves, in  Lost Causes of Motoring, Lord Montagu wrote: ''[at Olympia in 1935] the company showed an extraordinary vehicle whose purpose in life defeats my imagination'
He described the saloon and the drophead but had to write 'Alas neither of the two cars on the stand was complete, and, after a long proving trial in Devon, the Mastra was conveniently forgotten'
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Re: SOLVED: Djetset 827 - Mastra HP 15 Coupe by Trojan
« Reply #11 on: July 05, 2017, 12:01:44 PM »
Ah ha, I thought you would have known this one Allan  :)
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